Sean Moreland: EXILE Quarterly 42.2 – “As Never Bird Sang Before” a reading

“The sirens outside like cries of a prehistoric predatory bird. Winter tensed, afraid they were coming here, for her mother, but the sirens soon passed, a hush hanging in their wake.
“They had been closely side-by-side for countless hours now. Winter in the chair, leaning in a low brood, her mother in the bed, pressed there by pain, both held in a puddle of sickly yellow light, its edges draining into the dark around them. The chair wedged in against the bed, like there’d been a collision…”

Sean Moreland lives and teaches in Ottawa. He created Postscripts to Darkness (pstdarkness.com) and his short fiction and award-winning poetry have most recently appeared in Lackington’s, Black Treacle, Acidic Fiction, and Dissections. He has published essays in many collections and journals, and recently edited The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation and Transformation (2017), and New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The Critical Influence of H.P. Lovecraft (2018). http://pstdarkness.com

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